Principals' Implementation of Integrated Equity Systems Change: Implications for Racial Equity Reform

• In Event: Educational Leadership for Educational Equity

Abstract

To date no empirical study directly addresses finding commonalities in the implementation of ICS Equity (Frattura & Capper, 2007). Further, no studies to date examine the principal selection of the ICS Equity steps for changing the systems and structures of school that perpetuate institutional and structural racism and lead to reactionary practices such as discipline, remediation, and overrepresentation of African American students in special education. Given this gap in the literature three questions anchor this study: In schools implementing ICS Equity (a) How do principals implement the systems change process? (b)What effect has equity systems change had on African American student holistic success? (c)What barriers remain for implementation?

Author

• Heather Lynn Dunham-Roth, University of North Florida